by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2023 | Health IT
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched “Home Test to Treat” – a pilot program that will allow people to receive free testing, consultation, and treatment for COVID-19 from their homes. The agency said it is aiming to offer this service to up to 100,000...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 19, 2022 | Health IT, Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Senators Roger Marshall and Jeanne Shaheen plan to introduce legislation that will require social media companies to report fentanyl activity to law enforcement. The legislation would add to House Republicans’ strategy to increase oversight of tech...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 14, 2022 | Health IT
A joint investigation of 50 direct-to-consumer telehealth companies, conducted by STAT and The Markup, revealed that many were leaking sensitive medical information they collect to the world’s largest advertising platforms. Thirteen of the 50 websites had at least one...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 8, 2022 | Health IT
Amazon has ended its support for its HIPAA-compliant Alexa health tool and will delete all of the data by the end of the week. Amazon rolled out the tools on Alexa in 2019, offering applications with a collection of hospitals, as well as telehealth company Teladoc...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2022 | Health IT
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new genomics service, called Amazon Omics, to run IT-heavy bioinformatics workflows for health care and life sciences companies. AWS built the service to help bioinformaticians, researchers, and scientists store, analyze, and...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2022 | Health IT
General Electric Co. set the terms for the spinoff of its health care division, putting an initial value of roughly $31 billion on the soon-to-be-public company. The separation is set for January 3 after the markets close. Following the health care spinoff, it plans...
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